The concept of agglomeration economies, first considered in a systematic (though rather restrictive) manner by Weber, has proven to be an important feature in the analysis of industrial location, whether this is of a theoretical or empirical nature. In either case considerable reliance has been...

Rostow?s approach to economic development, summarized in The Stages of Economic Growth, involved an economy passing through a sequence of well-defined stages. The stages were as follows: traditional society; preconditions for take-off; take-off; drive to maturity; and the age of high mass...

The concept of agglomeration economies, first considered in a systematic (though rather restrictive) manner by Weber, has proven to be an important feature in the analysis of industrial location, whether this is of a theoretical or empirical nature. In either case considerable reliance has been...

Parr J. B. (2005) Perspectives on the city-region, Regional Studies 39 , 555-566. The significance of the city-region as a key feature of the space economy of a nation has been acknowledged for some time. Recently, however, there has been a spate of interest in the city-region, and the reasons...

Abstract Consideration is given to the spatial structure of the metropolitan area, and to the tendency for this to be generalized in terms of the stark dichotomy of city and suburbs. Focusing on a four-zone metropolitan area, a model of spatial interaction is outlined, the components of which...

MOGRIDGE M. and PARR J. B. (1997) Metropolis or region: on the development and structure of London, Reg. Studies 31, 97-115. Drawing on a disparate range of sources and viewing the question from several perspectives, an attempt is made to trace the development of London over the period since...

The form of agglomeration economies (those internal to the firm as well as those external to it) is reviewed. Consideration is next given to recent changes in the regional (state) economies of the US Midwest, as part of an effort to explore the evolving nature of agglomeration economies....